This Connective Cities web-seminar is scheduled for March 24, 2021, 12 to 3 pm. The event is devoted to exploring municipal initiatives and measures taken to address economic and business sector challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to review how municipalities have managed to support vulnerable businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the webseminar will explore innovative private sector support schemes responding to COVID-19, outline the actions and strategies deployed to communicate with the private sector, and highlight the importance of business recovery plans.

Covering all of the above-mentioned topics, the event is divided into the following three parts:

• Presentation of best practices from Connective Cities network members on innovative business approaches and business recovery plans
• Practical experience: municipal responses to COVID-19 in the business sector from Lima (Peru) and Cape Town (South Africa)
• Panel discussion: effectiveness of business recovery plans at the municipal level during the COVID-19 pandemic

Are you interested in participating? Please contact
Irakli Samkharadze
Connective Cities Network Coordinator Southeast Europe
irakli.samkharadze(at)giz.de

For more information please download the agenda.